The Universe.

I once read that a famous rich man makes thousands of dollars every second, even while he's asleep.
I may not be able to match that, however, even in my sleep, I travel at 18.55 miles per second around the Sun (67,000 miles per hour), and 135 miles per second around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Then, there is the earth's rotation: At the equator, 25,000 miles per day, or, 1,042 miles per hour.
It takes the Sun 225 million years to complete a revolution (orbit) around the center of the Galaxy. Since the Sun is 'only' 4.6 billion years old, it has made the trip around the Galaxy only 20.5 times.
If we take into account the generally accepted age of mankind in its current form at 2 million years, then, we have traveled with the sun around the center of the Galaxy only:
225,000,000 years - 100%
002,000,000 years - x%
x = 0.89%
That is, a Sun orbit around the center of the Galaxy being 100%, we, as humans, have only traveled 0.89% of the Sun's orbit around the center of the Galaxy (not around the Galaxy, as the Sun is not at the edge of the Galaxy).
Furthermore, the way things are going, by the time the Sun completes revolution 21, there will no longer be a human species on earth, assuming it's now at revolution 20.5 since the Sun was formed.
Now, consider that civilizations as we know them only flourished from 10,000 B.C. to present. That is, roughly, 12,000 years. This means that since the end of the last Ice Age and the emergence of civilization, we have traveled with the Sun only 0.0053% of its orbit around the center of the Galaxy.
We indeed are "Dust in the Wind," as the song goes.

Interesting readings:
Speed of Earth and the Sun around the center of the Galaxy:
http://members.aol.com/nlpjp/speed.htm
Timeline of Evolution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution
Speed of Earth's Rotation:
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970401c.html
Timeline of Ancient Mesopotamia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Ancient_Mesopotamia

Physics

Just when I thought I had the Universe figured out, I find out that matter, or, mass, doesn't exist...
Well, according to the Standard Model, all the nice subatomic particles we call Fermions and Bosons do not possess mass. Of course, something is missing in the Standard Model's theory of the Universe, and that is: What causes mass to exist?
That's the job of the Higgs Boson, or, rather, the Higgs Mechanism.
There's only one catch: The Higgs Boson is so shy, nobody has seen it. Well, there was one 'sighting,' if that counts. However, help is on the way: The LHC (Large Hadron Collider, at CERN), will start experiments targetting the Higgs Boson in November of 2,007. With more than 800,000 collisions per second. Those who know are telling us that it may take 2 years to analyze the data once the LHC's experiments start.
What does it all mean to the average person?
This experiment might ruin an otherwise perfect Fall day if, as a result of the experiments, we are rewarded with our very own Black Hole, here, on earth. First to go would be Switzerland and France, then... Well, you know how Black Holes behave.
Does anybody know how to 'put down' a Black Hole?
Me neither...
The scientists at CERN believe that, if a Black Hole is formed, and they expect many, these will be 'very small,' so much so, that they will 'evaporate' instantly.
As you can see, I am still worried about the Higgs Boson. I hope the F1 07 Championship will be finished by then!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6244899.stm